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The idea of there being one genetic "you" is up in the air
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We all know the symptoms: the red sports car, the leather jacket, the journey to "find oneself," the tattoos
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In New York City you are never more than six feet away from a rat and its diseases
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China has been the focus of much of the attention surrounding sex selection at birth, but recent numbers have shown that it's not a problem unique to Asia
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As much as researchers themselves want to believe that breakfast helps people lose weight or keep it off, the evidence is far from conclusive
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What used to take half an hour now lasts mere minues
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6.6 million children died before their first birthday last year, but the good news is that number is going down
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When it comes to super long distances, women are catching up to men
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Before we actually went to space, we had some ideas about what Earth might look like
The authors suspect that other great apes and species of intelligent animals likely use similar communication strategies
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This might sound like the beginning of a cartoon, but it's not. Molasses is bad for wildlife, and the officials are dealing with an environmental disaster
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Farmers may be able to use growl-broadcasting, motion-triggered speakers to deter elephants from raiding their crops
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Steam coming from a mothballed plutonium plant could mean North Korea is resuming its weapons program
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Tony Abbott's Liberal campaign slogan of "Chose real change" may turn out to be unsettlingly on the mark
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Rounding up and securing all of Assad's chemical weapons will no doubt be challenging, but the actual act of destroying them isn't quite so difficult
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Some men may be naturally inclined to go down the long-term investment parenting route, whereas others may lean towards the Johnny Appleseed approach
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This is basically an Apple commercial for bat preservation
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Actual astronauts never seem afraid to piece the atmosphere and plunge into the icy depths beyond our planet, but they are
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Norway requested that INTERPOL bestow the Snake with a Purple Notice, information-gathering the agency uses to compile details on criminal activities
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Today, studying comets and meteors involves billions of dollars worth of equipment and teams from all over the world
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